Publications

SELECTED WRITING

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ARTS & POLITICS

• “Artist Nick Cave Talks About Surrendering to the Sacred.”  Hyperallergic. April 2019.
• “For Its Centennial, the Allen Museum Focuses on the Important Roles Women Played in Its History.” Hyperallergic. December 2017.
• “From Plant to Page, a Conservatory Grows Trees to Turn into Handmade Paper.”  Hyperallergic.  November 2017.
• “A New Video Starkly Illustrates the Impact of Climate Change.”  Hyperallergic.  August 2017.
• “Mapping the Mysterious Ancient Carvings of Naked Women Across Ireland.”  Hyperallergic.  August 2017.
• “Adam Pendleton Examines the Multiplicity of Blackness.”  Hyperallergic. May 2017.  (Highlighted in The Atlantic.)
• “Grappling with Racism Past and Present in Segregated Cleveland.”  Hyperallergic.  March 2017.
• “In New Drawings, Kara Walker Traces American Histories of Christianity and Racism.”  Hyperallergic.  January 2017.
• “Irish Artists Fight to Repeal Their Country’s Abortion Ban.”  Hyperallergic. November 2016.
• “Saying Goodbye to Tamir Rice’s Gazebo.”  Hyperallergic. September 2016.
• “Art & Body Politics at the Republican National Convention.” Hyperallergic.  July 2016.

ECOLOGICAL DESIGN

• “At-Risk Trees in Tropical Hardwood Trade.”  Journal of Medicinal Plant Conservation. May 2022.
• ““Self-Seeding in the Garden-Farm.”.”  Permaculture Design Magazine, Issue #102 Plants & Propogation.  November 2016.
• “Hügelkultur 101” Permaculture Design Magazine, Issue #101 Permaculture At Work.  August 2016.
• “Extreme Resilience: Rain Gardens & Urban Trees”  Permaculture Design Magazine, Issue #100 Water Extremes: Drought & Flood.  Summer 2016.
• “Ecological Restoration: Integrate, Not Segregate.”  Permaculture Design Magazine, Issue #99 Ecological Restoration (online version). Spring 2016.  (*syndicated by Gardenopolis Cleveland)
• “What Is Permaculture, Anyway?”  Permaculture Design Magazine, Issue #98 Decolonizing Permaculture. Winter 2015.

BOOKS

• “Healing Racial Injustices Using Restorative Practices.”  A Race Anthology: Dispatches & Artifacts From a Segregated City. Guide to Kulchur Press.  October 2016.
• Pechilis, Karen, ed.  The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States, 2005 – Research Assistant.

POETRY

• Split or In the Dead of Winter.  Forthcoming Spring 2018.
• Birth: A Book of Poetry, June 2013, self-published, Warrington, PA. print.
• “Starling” The Salon, Issue No. 6, Winter 2012, Honey Bee Press, Burlington, VT. print.
• Every Dawn & Dusk: Poems from Cleveland, Jan 2011, Glover, VT. print.

Recent Awards:

Writing residency award at Vermont Studio Center, January 2018.

Recent Media:

• “Healthcare Hero: Diana Sette.”  Flying Horse Farms Blog.  https://flyinghorsefarms.org/news/healthcare-hero-diana-sette/  2022.
• “Here’s Why Your Allergies Might Be Worse This Year in Northeast Ohio” Ideastream.  May 2021. https://www.ideastream.org/news/heres-why-your-allergies-might-be-worse-this-year-in-northeast-ohio